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Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey

Book – Anyone who’s been regretting a shortage of great sci-fi movies lately can find consolation in the Expanse series by James S.A. Corey (the pseudonym for the duo of Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck). In the first volume, Leviathan Wakes, we’re introduced to the solar system as it will be. Earth is an aging power, Mars a powerful colony, and the Belt – the thinly-populated region of outer space that’s developed its own language, culture, and phenotype – well, the Belt just wants to be left alone. Tensions are high anyway, but they only get worse when Jim Holden of the late ice miner Canterbury accuses Mars of destroying his ship. Holden’s wrong, though. It wasn’t Mars. It was someone else – someone covering up a secret that no one would have guessed.

Corey is terrific at making books out of nothing but awesome things. If you’re in the market for space battles, unnameable horrors, down-on-their-luck cops, and the unstoppable force of a dedicated optimist meeting the immovable object of human politics, Leviathan Wakes is the book for you – and if you like this, there are two more books already available and three more in the works.

About Jen

I'm an Adult Services Librarian at the Warrenville Public Library. I'll read just about anything you put in front of me, but I've always been a science fiction & fantasy fan. I'm also fond of history, true crime, thrillers, and popular anthropology that isn't written by Jared Diamond. When I'm not reading, I'm painting, watching movies from the 1930s and 40s, working on my novel, or out at the archery range playing with pointy sticks.